Countries
Norway
  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
National Language
Norway
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Amharic-1.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Ethiopic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Selam
  
Thank You
takk
  
amesege'nallo'
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Dehina newot?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Dehna dur
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
melkam meshe't
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
i'ndemin adäru
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
i'bakwon
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
aznallehu
  
Bye
ha det
  
tschao
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
afekirishalehu
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
yiqirta
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Gondar
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Gondar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Gojjami
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Ethiopia
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
18.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Norsk
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
amharique
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Amharisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Amharas
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Amharic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional
  
Norwegian and Amharic Speaking population
Norwegian and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Amharic on Norwegian vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Amharic Language Codes
Norwegian and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.